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-Clear secrets from memory. Built on stable Rust primitives which guarantee memory is zeroed using an operation will not be 'optimized away' by the compiler.
+Securely clear secrets from memory. Built on stable Rust primitives which guarantee memory is zeroed using an operation will not be 'optimized away' by the compiler.
 Uses a portable pure Rust implementation that works everywhere.
 
 It uses [zeroize](https://crates.io/crates/zeroize) crate under the hood.